The ladies of Ladytron are back with their fourth studio album, Velocifero. Ever since they showed up on the scene in 2001, the girls have been helping to define the synth-rock movement, and this album unquestionably continues in that tradition. It's certainly electronic, its bass lines buzz hard (try Black Cat, the opening track on the album, below, which also by the way features vocals sung in Bulgarian by Mira Aroyo), and it's darkness conveys an alluringly cold emotion that has sparked plenty of imitators (Client comes to mind).The album is what it is, take it or leave it. If you're into that cold, synthetic driving dance beat, you'll find it here. Not your thing? Ladytron probably isn't what you should be spinning. Velocifero veers a little from the path Witching Hour (their last album) took; there aren't any slower, guitar led or balledesque tracks a la Beauty*2 here, and on a whole I think they return to a less organic sound here. That's not to say there isn't beauty to be found in these tracks, just of a different nature. The complete album doesn't come out until June 3rd. but the first single off the album is Ghosts, and a digital version of it is already available on eMusic and iTunes. It includes a single edit of the album track and three remixes (one of which you can hear below).
Want to see the ladies playing their new material on a vast array of synthesizers right before your very eyes? They're on tour for the next few months with retro-electro-danco-spazo-nauts Datarock. Check out dates below.
Ladytron - Black Cat : Velocifero
Ladytron - Ghosts (Modwheelmood mix) : Ghosts single (original version on Velocifero)
Ladytron - Ghosts (Modwheelmood mix) : Ghosts single (original version on Velocifero)
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Datarock - Bulldozer : Datarock Datarock
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Upcoming Tour Dates (with Datarock)
May
20 Edmonton, AB - The Starlite Room
21 Calgary, AB - The Warehouse
23 Vancouver, BC - Commodore Ballroom
24 Seattle, WA - Showbox
25 Portland, OR - Wonder Ballroom
27 San Francisco, CA - Fillmore
29 Los Angeles, CA - Henry Fonda
30 Los Angeles, CA - Henry Fonda
31 San Diego, CA - The Belly Up
June
2 Salt Lake City, UT - In The Venue
3 Denver, CO - The Gothic
5 Dallas, TX - Palladium Ballroom
6 Austin, TX - Stubbs
7 Houston, TX - Meridian
8 New Orleans, LA - House Of Blues
10 Orlando, FL - Club Firestone
11 Tampa, FL - Czar
12 Miami, FL - Studio A
13 Atlanta, GA - Variety Playhouse
15 Manchester, TN - Bonnaroo Festival (* without Datarock)
16 St. Louis, MO - The Pageant
17 Chicago, IL - Vic Theater
18 Detroit, MI - St. Andrews Hall
25 New York, NY - Terminal 5
26 Philadelphia, PA - Theater of Living Arts
27 Baltimore, MD - Sonar
28 Washington, DC - 9:30 Club
30 Boston, MA - Paradise
2 comments:
"The ladies of Ladytron are back with their fourth studio album, Velocifero. Ever since they showed up on the scene in 2001, the girls have been helping to define the synth-rock movement, and this album unquestionably continues in that tradition."
Ladytron consists of two women and two men.
Quite right, thanks Anon. I should have been quite clear in that the band fronted by two women is back.
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